On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Tony Houghton wrote:

> Although 1.3a now seems to be up and running on my machine, it gives a
> few strange messages when booting:
> 
> savecore : /netbsd : nlist : No such file or directory
> savecore : /netbsd : _dumpdev not in namelist

very odd, but due to the something later
 
> Then a bit later on:
> 
> kvm_mkdb : /netdsb : No such file or directory
                 ^-- is this a typo?  if it's not a script must have a
typo in it...

> chmod : /dev/tty[pqrs]* : No such file or directory

I think this is the prob...

> No doubt the second is caused by the last, but the 3rd is a bit
> strange, because I have got the kernel installed and am booting from it
> natively.

I think the problem might be ther fourth line...

> As for the last message, I see my /dev directory contains nothing but a
> directory "fd" and scripts "MAKEDEV" and "MAKEDEV.local". Should I run
> the scripts?

This is probably the problem.

As root 'cd /dev' and do './MAKEDEV all'

that should hopefully fix things, and you'll get lots of files in /dev

Note I could be wrong about all this I've not install 1.3a yet

Hope this helps,
Chris